South Korea ferry flipped quickly, denying many a chance to escape: Graphic

As the grim task of recovering bodies from a sunken South Korean ferry continues, the government is having to consider when to bring in cranes and begin efforts to raise the submerged vessel. The government has warned the work might eliminate air pockets that could be sustaining survivors, but for some relatives that is a long-lost hope. “Now we think we have to deal with this realistically,” said Pyun Yong-gi, whose 17-year-old daughter is among the missing. “We don’t want the bodies to decay further, so we want them to pull out the bodies as quickly as they can.”